Oscars 2014: What makes for a good host?

By Chuck Barney and Tony Hicks, Bay Area News Group

Posted:
02/26/2014 11:39:46 AM MST

Oscars hosts

ABC/OscarsOn Sunday night, in living rooms across America, TV viewers will have their Academy Awards pools in hand, anxiously hoping to predict which movie stars are about to strike gold.But, really, that's child's play. You want a real challenge? Try predicting who will host next year's show.Not so easy, is it? Not when the Academy, in recent years, has displayed a wild, whiplash-inducing inconsistency with its host-selection process. How can we make an well-informed forecast, after all, if Oscar can't ...